Sentences with phrase «local literacy initiatives»
It also creates a new literacy program to fund comprehensive local literacy initiatives, support state literacy leadership teams, and provide educators with evidence - based professional development in literacy.
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Grants to New Mexico school districts, charter schools, and regional education cooperatives to support local literacy initiatives.
The United Way of America received $ 600,000 to award challenge grants to the local literacy initiatives of six United Way chapters.
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The Center for Collaborative Education is partnering with schools participating in the New Hampshire Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) initiative to support them in building assessment literacy and creating local competency - based assessment systems anchored in performance assessments.
These are high - level initiatives that need attention at the local, state and federal - level for optimum success, but certainly fall nicely into our goals of promoting assessment and data literacy.
Crasset's inspiration came partly from a local government initiative aimed at increasing literacy, and what better way to encourage reading than with free lending and three shaded reading areas, right on the sand?
ESSA requires local grants that focus on children in grades 6 — 12 to provide training for school librarians and other school district personnel to support, develop, administer, and evaluate high - quality comprehensive literacy instruction initiatives.
Sustainable economic activity is strengthened by our unique solar education and innovation programs, which includes funding for certification programs, local research and development initiatives and environmental literacy activities for schools.
Such outreach initiatives from within the courthouse, offered by librarians or lawyers from the local community, would help demystify the justice system and contribute not only to heightened legal literacy among the public, but also promote awareness of the expertise and services available to them from the legal professionals in their communities.
As part of this initiative, NBCDI has recently partnered to implement programs in our Affiliate communities with Raising A Reader, a national nonprofit organization offering local agencies an evidence - based, early literacy and family engagement program.